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Summer is a great time to visit one of many NYC’s parks, which range from carefully landscaped lawns to athletic facilities to natural forests. The NYC Parks website provides a handy interactive map, with detailed information about facilities available in each park. You can also browse parks by borough. The Parks Department has been working […]

Join the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities on Tuesday, June 5 for a panel of arts professionals, critics and cultural thinkers to discuss how artists can engage the public in a dialogue about sustainability, using Mary Miss/City as Living Laboratory’s project, BROADWAY: 1000 Steps, as provocation. This National Science Foundation (NSF) supported panel discussion will […]

According to Department of City Planning data, there are 596 acres of unused public land in Brooklyn. There is greater utility in community gardens, composting sites, and compost sites, than empty lots. This is the premise of 596 Acres, a community education project that helps connect Brooklyn residents to vacant public land resources. 596 Acres […]

The Brooklyn Food Conference will take place this Saturday, May 12. The event is free, and will be filled with over 170 panel discussions, speakers, workshops, panel discussions, food demos, family programming, and art. The goal of the Conference is to “strengthen the cooperative effort of individuals, groups and organizations fighting everyday for a healthy, […]

Do you have an idea to make Hunter even greener? The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) is a new mini-grant program on campus, open to all undergraduate students. TGIF is currently accepting applications and will award grants on a competitive basis. The application deadline is Monday, October 17th. You can download the 2011-2012 TGIF Application […]